Old Age quotes
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
-- Al Sharpton -
Old age is the verdict of life.
-- Amelia Barr -
My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.
-- Anne Bradstreet -
Old age is second childhood.
-- Aristophanes -
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Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age
-- Barbara Park -
I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.
-- Bela Lugosi -
Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.
-- Bjork -
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
-- Carol Grace -
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As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
-- Carrie Fisher -
Old age is perhaps life's decision about us ...
-- Christina Stead -
It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.
-- David Weber -
Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.
-- Diane de Poitiers -
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Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed.
-- Doris Grumbach -
Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -
Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
-- Emily Dickinson -
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Few know how to be old.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.
-- Harold S. Kushner -
Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.
-- Jacques Barzun -
There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.
-- Joyce Kilmer -
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Old age is an island surrounded by death.
-- Juan Montalvo -
After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.
-- Julio Cortazar -
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
-- Juvenal -
Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.
-- Karl Kraus -
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
nobody ever intends to be old.
-- Marie Corelli -
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when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.
-- Martha Albrand -
When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.
-- Millicent Fenwick -
I'm too young to be this old.
-- Mimi Sheraton -
Getting old in America ... best to do it somewhere else.
-- Nicole Hollander -
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Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
-- Red Skelton -
Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.
-- Robert Collyer -
How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!
-- Stanisław I Leszczyński -
old folks is the nation.
-- Toni Cade Bambara -
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Old age is the harbor of all ills.
-- Wilfred Bion -
We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.
-- Wilfred Bion -
Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.
-- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley -
Old age is a woman's hell.
-- Ninon de L'Enclos -
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Old age is women's hell.
-- Ninon de L'Enclos -
We have a great regard for old age when it is bottled.
-- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
